...) , for example, investigated the use of power as a source of discipline and control throughout the decision-making process around a community festival in Derby, UK. Similarly, Batty (2016) identified examples of stakeholders’ legitimate power due to their position within community sports event organisations...

... an electronic dance music festival in the past 12 months. Guided by the positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning and accomplishments (PERMA) model, the thematic analysis revealed a series of psychological and contextual dimensions around PERMA and liminality that need to occur...

.... Over 250 narratives were gathered from festival attendees in the UK and Finland. Respondents completed a writing task detailing their most vivid memories, what made them memorable, their feelings at the time and as they remembered them, and how they shared them. The narratives were then analysed...

... rights only This paper aims to understand how festival brand personality is built and managed in the social media environment by explaining the intended (by the organizers) festival brand personality and how this concept is communicated and perceived by social media users. In marketing...

... worldview, we tentatively explore and evaluate practice-based segmentation as a potential conceptual alternative to more traditional segmentation approaches. Customer-to-customer (C2C) co-creation practices of festival visitors are used as an empirical context for the study of practice-based segmentation...

... (Bingham, 1986 ; Graci, 2013). Collaboration becomes more crucial when actors participate voluntarily (Adu-Ampong, 2017 ; Astley, 1984). The combination of collaboration and networking between local festival stakeholders into a conceptual model allows the current findings to offer meaningful...

...Mathilda Van Niekerk The articles in this special issue lay the foundation for future research in events, festivals and destination management. Articles in this special issue apply various research methods and analysis, indicating the growth of event and festival research. Research methods...

... research to elucidate SM use in tourism. Festivals provide a unique environment of co-created experience. Findings suggest differential usage of SM across festival time frames and platforms that can be used to guide festival organizations’ SM communication to better engage its patrons. Social media...

... This paper aims to investigate the determinants of current visitors’ festival revisit intentions. The concepts of festival quality and satisfaction were adapted and integrated with the theory of planned behavior (TPB) from social psychology to theorize a model of festival revisit intentions. In addition...

... an overview of festivals and meeting/convention events in the region. Findings Drawing from specific examples from the region, reasons for event successes are discussed. A diagram is used to illustrate how event products should be developed in order to help Niagara region tourism and economic growth...

...Stephen W. Litvin; Elizabeth Fetter Purpose The purpose of this research is to study the impact of the Spoleto, USA festival on the Charleston, SC hotel industry. Anecdotal evidence indicates that, while the highly successful event has benefited the community as a whole, hotels have not shared...